Physician Assistants

Abilities

The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

78.00

Inductive Reasoning

The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).

78.00

Deductive Reasoning

The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

78.00

Oral Expression

The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

75.00

Written Comprehension

The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

75.00

Problem Sensitivity

The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

72.00

Written Expression

The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.

72.00

Near Vision

The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

68.75

Speech Recognition

The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

68.75

Information Ordering

The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

68.75

Speech Clarity

The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

59.50

Category Flexibility

The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.

53.00

Perceptual Speed

The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.

53.00

Flexibility of Closure

The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.

53.00

Speed of Closure

The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.

53.00

Finger Dexterity

The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.

50.00

Number Facility

The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.

50.00

Originality

The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.

50.00

Fluency of Ideas

The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).

50.00

Visual Color Discrimination

The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.

50.00

Mathematical Reasoning

The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.